Baptism vs. Anniversary

[Janet]

You don't really have to budge either. I think your feelings of your first anniversary are justified. If it's really not that important to the two of you to be the Godparents to this little girl, then tell them your very first anniversary is a very important day for you and that you want to celebrate it in a special way. If it is important to you to be the Godparents, then it becomes their special day and you must do it on that date. You will have to think it over more and decide which is the most important to you.

[Lindsey]

Thanks Janet. We do want to be her Godparents. I just wish it could be another weekend. Why not June? Why not August? She is on maternity leave for a year, and her husband works 14 days, and has 7 days off, all year long. It's not like they are busy every weekend for the next YEAR! I feel like they picked that day just to make things difficult for us. Why did they ask in the first place to tell them which weekends we are free, if they only had one option from the beginning?

In July, the baby will be not even three months old. My brother and I were not baptized until we were a year old. I don't think there is any reason it HAS to happen in July. They are also not religious AT ALL. They do not go to church, ever. To them, it is not even a factor of the baptism itself, I don't think, as much as travelling to their hometown to show off their baby in church to all of their parents' friends and to the community.

They knew that date was our anniversary, but Scott said his sister will always get her way, because she always has. Everyone does what she wants. And since they are travelling further than us, they can set whichever date they want.

Maybe I should just let it go. We can celebrate the next weekend, when we are married for one year and one week.

[Blueyes]

Maybe you could get a nice hotel room and take your cake and champagne with you??

[Lindsey]

Good thinking Betsi Scott just suggested that too. We will have to see if his parents are okay to watch the dogs for a night. I'm apprehensive to leave them overnight, but we will be leaving them there for a week in November so it could be a short trial run.